Reviewers Liked
- Supports up to five M.2 drives without blocking PCIe slots
- Vast array of onboard control buttons and switches
Reviewers Didn't Like
- PCIe slot down to x4 mode
- Very Expensive
Asus ROG Zenith II Extreme
Pricing aside, the Zenith II Extreme is an amazing product with proper VRM design and pure stability, and all bells and whistles you may expect for that nearly absurd amount of money.
-- As reviewed by Guru of 3D
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7.2
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A very nice overall product, the ROG Zenith II Extreme’s greatest challenge will be to win over $850 spenders with its (comparatively) sub-$700 feature set. Buyers who are wealthy enough to trivialize that difference should be very satisfied.
By Tom's Hardware onOverall, if you are looking to build an ultimate AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation, the ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme motherboard is perhaps the top platform out there to build upon.
By servethehome.com onThere are already some significantly cheaper options than the ROG Zenith II Extreme out there, with the ROX Strix TRX40-E sitting at less than £500 and the Prime TRX40-Pro costing a little over £400. That's still not particularly affordable, especially compared to the cheaper X299 motherboards out there, but it cements the Zenith as an extreme motherboard with an extreme price, rather than a necessity, even though we're talking about the most powerful desktop CPUs ever created.
By Bit-Tech onPricing aside, the Zenith II Extreme is an amazing product with proper VRM design and pure stability, and all bells and whistles you may expect for that nearly absurd amount of money.
By Guru of 3D onIf you've been out of the loop for a while you wont believe how good the Gigabyte Aorus range is, and the new design and name of the MSI might put off some cautious types, so plumping for a ROG motherboard is a popular option and you wont be disappointed in performance terms. Sure we can quibble slightly that the design is a safe option, but it works and it would be churlish to bemoan ASUS for sticking with a successful formula.
By Overclock3D onThe ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme has a price tag of $850 and sits at the top of the TRX40 product stack from ASUS. With the addition of the two new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X and 3960X, and the 3990X with 64-cores expected next year, the quality of the...
By AnandTech onASUS acompaña con su ROG Zenith II Extreme el lanzamiento de los Threadripper 3000. Como era de esperar la calidad de su BIOS es muy alta así como de componentes utilizados, solo echo en falta mayor compatibilidad con memorias.Veo puntos en el diseño a...
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Sí, es un precio muy alto, pero esta es una plataforma para usuarios que necesitan aprovechar muchos núcleos y tener mucha memoria RAM. Esta placa base es una de las mejores y su precio lo vale.
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Except for the missing Thunderbolt 3.0, the ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme does not compromise, provided you ignore the high purchase price. With the exception of one USB 3.2 Gen1 header, the processing quality is also correct here. The question is whether ASUS can drop many copies, because at least 780 Euros are already a house number for a desktop motherboard.
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